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Dec 23, 2017
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Video features call for holding prosecutors accountable for this malicious prosecution, and three of the exonerated defendants speaking On the 22nd of December, three of the former J20 defendants acquitted by a jury on Dec 21 spoke at a victory rally held on Freedom Plaza. They and other speakers denounced the governments's so far failed attempt to abuse the legal process to suppress dissent under Donald Trump. At this point, the J20 trial scoreboard stands at six acquitted, 188 more to go. A...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, DisruptJ20
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Apr 16, 2020
04/20
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Twenty years ago on the day this was written, the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings were beseiged and shut down by betweenb 20,000 and 30,000 direct action protesters. Now the Spring Meetings have been driven to online venues by a different kind of siege: the coronavirus. Reports that the IMF and World Bank agreed to cancel all debts "owed" to them unfortunately turned out to be an online prank. If the IMF meetings have been driven into Zoom, there are many vulnerabilities in zoom,...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, Zoom, coronavirus, A16, IMF, World Bank, debt, globalization
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Mar 22, 2018
03/18
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On the 21st of March, Code Pink protested inside the Saudi Arts and Cultural event at the Kennedy Center. This event was in honor of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's visit to the US. Code Pink disrupted it to protest Saudi Arabia's ongoing bombing and war against the people of Yemen. Backing track is "Eastern Dreams" CC-by-sa by Wildfire Games at http://www.wildfiregames.com/ (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, Code Pink, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
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Jul 27, 2017
07/17
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On the 26th of June, Planned Parenthood held a protest against "Trumpcare" with hundreds of supporters, many dressed in Pink at Upper Senate Park. Speakers noted that once again, all of the proposed bills boot millions off insurance, bring back pre-existing conditions exclusions-and all defend Planned Parenthood. They also pointed out that all this is to fund tax cuts for the rich. Speakers emphasized that Planned Parenthood is often the only available source not only of reproductive...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, ACA, Trumpcare, Planned Parenthood
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Nov 9, 2018
11/18
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Former Atty General Jeff Sessions was among Trump's worst, most racist nominations for high office. This however was not enough for Trump, as Jeff Sesions recused himself from the Russiagate probe instead of seeking to defund and shut it down. One day after the 2018 midterm election, Donald Trump forced Sessions to resign for that. In response thousands of protesters descended on the White House. Thousands more gathered in hundreds of other cities. The Nov 8 White House protest was mostly...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, Trump, Jeff Sessions, Matthew Whitaker, Russiagate
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Mar 6, 2018
03/18
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On the 5th of March, the Sunrise Movement sucessfully slipped past the defenses of Trump Hotel and blocked the entrances to a room where "IPAAaccess" planned to eat dinner while lobbying politicians to do their bidding. All got out safely after an hour-long blockade. IPAAaccess is a lobbying arm of the Independent Petroleum Institute of America, and the purpose of the dinner was to promote fracking. Outside Trump Hotel, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous supporters held a support...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, Trump Hotel, Sunrise Movement, fracking, IPAAaccess
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Sep 18, 2020
09/20
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On the 18th of September, Extinction Rebellion DC showed up outside CNN's DC headquarters with a desk,a mock CNN anchor team, characters including a devil and fire spirits, and plenty of brightly colored smoke. They were there to protest CNN's near-total lack of coverage of the role of climate change in fueling the West Coast wildfires whose smoke plumes have reached Europe. CNN has said almost nothing about the hotter, drier conditions that have led to these fires. Protesters charge this is so...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, Extinction Rebellion, BP, CNN, climate change, wildfires
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Apr 1, 2017
04/17
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On the 31st of April, Ringling Brothers Circus held one of their last shows in DC. Outside, an animal rights activist asked the departing crowd not to attend other animal-using circuses in the future as they all abuse animals. Ringlings has been seen at this very location beating tigers on stage. Now, thanks to pressure from animal rights activists and an end to the elephant acts, Ringings is finally shutting down for good after this tour.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, animal rights, circus, Ringling Brothers
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Jan 11, 2018
01/18
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On the 10th of January, environmentalists gathered in Annapolis, MD to demand that the General Assembly pass the Clean Energy Jobs Act of 2018, mandating that 50% of energy used in the state come from renewables such as solar and wind. The existing Clean Energy Jobs Act calls for 25% renewables by 2020, now climate, environmental justice, and faith activists are asking the state to double down with 50% by 2030. Several speakers pointed out that polllution from coal and other forms of dirty...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, CCAN, Annapolis, Clean Energy Jobs Act of 2018
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May 25, 2017
05/17
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On the 25th of May, protesters repeatedly disrupted a Senate confirmation hearing for Trump's nomineess to FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. One of the protesters was locked to a chair, and someone threw a loud noisemaker into the room. Beyond Extreme Energy organizer Lee Steward called FERC "an arm of the oil and gas industries," referring to their history of rubber stamping almost all proposed oil and gas project. Protesters said that FERC was not qualified to manage a...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, FERC, BXE, civil disobedience
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Feb 25, 2020
02/20
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Video from Friends of the Earth of Feb 24 Supreme Court rally as Atlantic Coast Pipeline case heard. On the 24th of Feb, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the appeal of a lower court ruling forbidding the (fracked gas) Atlantic Coast Pipeline from crossing under the Appalacian Trail. Outside protesters demanded the Court reject the pipeline and ignore the whining from fossil fuel industry attorneys. From original Twitter video's caption: "If completed, the Atlantic Coast...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, #ACP, Atlantic Coast Pipeline, Supreme Court, SCOTUS
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Nov 5, 2019
11/19
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On the 5th of November, one of a series of what are probably the UFCW's informational pickets came to a Safeway outlet in Montgomery County, MD. While the union is not yet on strike and hopefully won't have to resort to a strike, management must consider the possibility that shoppers may refuse to cross any kind of picket line.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, UFCW, Safeway, Giant
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May 31, 2020
05/20
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On the 30th of May, Donald Trump invited fascists to a "MAGA night" in front of the White House in response to the previous night's protests. No such thing could occur after protesters beseiged the entire area and several times tore down barricades meant to deny access to Lafayette Sq. As police violence and threats of kettles escalated, a dumpster and police car went up in flames.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, riot, uprising, George Floyd, Black Lives Matter
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Jun 24, 2020
06/20
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Shortly before police yielded 16th st and H st back to protesters occupying the "Black House Autonomous Zone," protesters burned a US flag at a nearby street corner.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, flag burning, Black House Autonomous Zone, Black Lives Matter,...
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Dec 18, 2015
12/15
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Homeless DC residents and their supporters march a casket through the streets of DC to remember 41 homeless people who died in the past year in the streets of DC
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Homeless Memorial Vigil, homelessness
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Sep 25, 2014
09/14
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Chesapeake Earth First! video of anti-fracking protest against Obama fundraiser during the UN Climate protests on Tuesday, Sep 23.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Earth First!, Obama, People's Climate March, fracking
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Jul 29, 2018
07/18
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Video from Day 13 of the Occupy Lafayette Park protests demanding Donald Trump be impeached for Russiagate/Putingate. As a speaker calls Trump a traitor in Russian, two pro-trump counterprotesters attempt to disrupt but are quickly drowned out. They soon left in defeat.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, Russiagate, Putingate, Trump, impeachment
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Sep 1, 2015
09/15
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Video from Direct Action Everywhere (DXE) Inside the MD State Fair showing cows being subjected to what appear to be bullhooks like those used in the circus. Next, activists speaking out at the fair on the subject of animal abuse are confronted by security guards
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Direct Action Everywhere, DXE, animal abuse, animal rights
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Nov 17, 2017
11/17
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The evening of Nov 16 featured a pro-GOP tax plan "Tax Prom" staring theocratic VP Mike Pence, $2,500 VIP tickets-and some uninvited guests making plenty of noise outside. The Tax March Chicken and Corruption Cleanup were in attendance, the former a reference to the refusal of Donald Trump to release his tax returns while peddling a tax "reform" bill to jack up middle class taxes and cut taxes on the rich.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, Tax March Chicken, Trump Tax Bill, tax reform
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Jun 23, 2016
06/16
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The landlord at 1320 Nicholson St owes but has not been paying tenants refunds for an illegal rent hike invalidated by the DC courts.Since a new management company took over the building conditions have deteriorated and this illegal rent hike was attempted, possibly in an attempt to clear out the building. On the 22nd of June, tenants rallied outside and met with councilmember Anita Bonds and Councilmember-elect Rober White(GOP never wins in DC) demanding action to recover the money they are...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, landlord-tenant, tenant activism, gentrification, displacement, housing
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Nov 5, 2017
11/17
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On the 4th of November, Indigenous activists including several members of the Piscataway nation joined with allies for a protest against the Potomac Pipeline at the Georgetown Waterfront. The Potomac Pipeline would have no connections to MD, its sole purpose being to connect Pennsylvania's fracked gas to potential new industries in W Virginia. The protest featured a traditional tobacco ceremony at the river, in which tobacco and other herbs were added to a copper vessel of water from the river...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, Potomac Pipeline, pipelines, fracking
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Mar 25, 2015
03/15
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On the 24th of March, Sen Wyden, leading Democrat of the Senate Finance Committee, had scheduled a fundraiser at the Bistro Bis restaurant in the same building as the Hotel George. The fundraiser was cancelled after he got word that protesters against his support for "fast-track," no amendment voting on the proposed TPP trade deal were also going to be there. Protesters showed up anyway as a precaution against being faked out and to educate passers by on the bribery that takes place...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Sen Ron Wyden, TPP, fast-track, antiglobalization protest
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Jun 29, 2014
06/14
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On the 28th of June, protesters from Climate First! entered two branches of TD Bank demanding they sever their ties to TransCanada, builder of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. At the first branch, protesters were able to get to the counter and attempted without success to hold a discussion with the Saturday day manager. He probably had to write a detailed report on the protest.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, TD Bank, Keystone XL, tar sands
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Aug 3, 2014
08/14
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On the 2nd of August, thousands of migrants and their supporters gathered on the Mall before marching first on Customs and Border Patrol's headquarters, then on Obama's White House. They were demanding nothing less than "deferred action" by executive order in every last deportation case. Security guards at CBP freaked out when protesters marched onto the plaza of the Ronald Reagan building, aggressively ordering people back. Protest marshalls called people back, no doubt fearing that...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, immigration, migration, CBP, Customs and Border Patrol
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Jan 25, 2016
01/16
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Biking (for groceries) on main roads two days after the Blizzard of 2016 ended. Where I live cars cannot easily get out-but bicycles can. Government officials are still asking people to stay home-but that's easy for them to say with the National Guard available to deliver them food.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Blizzard of 2016, bicycling
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Mar 11, 2016
03/16
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On the 9th of March, Anacostia residents rallied at the Congress Heights Metro to protest continuing attempts to force out tenants at the Congress Heights apartments. The landlords there hope to illegally evict or drive away all tenants so the apartments can be razed and replaced with a larger complex of shops, offices, and luxury housing. Residents are standing their ground and refusing to leave in spite of a total maintenance cutoff and other harassment. They were supported in this protest by...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Congress Heights, tenants, gentrification, displacement
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Aug 3, 2014
08/14
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US Park Police arrested one man for allegedly climbing one of the Lafayette Park lamp posts to fly the flag of Palestine, something MPD had paid no mind to when someone else did it near K street. A large crowd charged the police, driving them back to a defensive position near the White House sidewalk. Park Police on horses countercharged from the left-only to find they could not maneuver in such tight quarters. The Park cops refused to release their prisoner but retreated horses and all behind...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, US Park Police, Gaza, Palestine, Israel, US Park Police, Gaza, Palestine, Israel
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Sep 11, 2015
09/15
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On the 9th of September, the DC Bike Party took to the streets. Hundreds of riders filled streets with dense and festive traffic from Dupont Circle to and over Memorial Bridge, then back into DC
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, cycling, bicycling, DC Bike Party
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Jun 13, 2018
06/18
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On the 12th of June, multiple organizations held the DC Resistance Iftar on Freedom Plaza. Iftar is the Islamic traditional sunset breaking of the fast during Ramadan. Community Iftars around issues of concern to all are part of this tradition. Before the sun set on the DC Resistance Iftar, speakers condemned Trump's travel ban US support for the brutal regime in the Phillipines and the ongoing siege of Gaza. Video includes part of statement by Jerome Succor Aba read out at the Iftar on being...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, DC Resistance Iftar
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Jul 30, 2016
07/16
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Coffin pushed over the fence by Sanders supporters chanting "Hell no DNC- We won't vote for Hillery," Video originally uploaded to Youtube by Rod Webber.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, DNC, Democratic National Convention, Hillery Clinton, Bernie Sanders
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Dec 11, 2018
12/18
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On the 10th of December, migrants and their supporters held a protest at the White House demanding a clean DREAM act and renewal of Temporary Protected Status (TPS). In addition they called on Senator Chuck Schumer and others in Congress to defund or at least cut the budget for the Department of Homeland Security, of which both ICE and CBP are large components. A speaker at the protest described the horrors of small children being ripped from their parent's arms by the thugs of Customs and...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, Dept of Homeland Security, immigration
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Apr 16, 2017
04/17
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On the 15th of April, thousands marched past Trump Hotel in DC to demand that Donald Trump release his tax returns, especially before any Congressional consideration of his "tax reform" package that might be designed to benefit him directly. A mock Trump "released" his tax returns in front of the Capitol-shredded.Similar marches took place in cities all over the US. The march had a lot of direct Democratic Party involvement, including several members of Congress who spoke...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, Tax March, Trump
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Mar 17, 2018
03/18
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Footage from the March 11 protest at the home of the FDA's director, after dark as police showed up. ADAPT was there to demand that the FDA release regulations prohibiting electric shock "aversive therapy" nationwide in institutions for the disabled. The only such institution in the US is the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center (JRC). Backing music at the start is my own original composition, arrangement, and performance.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, ADAPT
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Nov 15, 2016
11/16
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On the 14th of November, the No Lame Duck Uprising blocked a portion of the SE-SW Freeway used by members of Congress on their trips between the US Capitol and area airports. They were protesting against the rise of racist Donald Trump while reminding members of Congress not to attempt to revive the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. With the TPP dead barring a dirty backroom deal with Trump, the No Lame Duck Uprising retasked their protest to oppose oligarchy as represented both by Donald...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, No Lame Duck, TPP, Trump, Not My President
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Sep 13, 2016
09/16
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At 7AM on the 12th of September, the Trump Hotel opened for business in the Old Post Office building,with a 99 year lease trump got thanks to help from DC Mayor Muriel Bowser. Protesters were outside opposing both the racism of Donald Trump and the giveaway of public property to this billionaire. Word is suites will be rented out for $500,000 a night on Inuaguration night, and normal rooms on normal nights for $800 with a 4 night minimum. None of those who rebuilt the Old Post Office building...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Trump, Trump Hotel
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Apr 1, 2019
04/19
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On the 30th of March, a protest against NATO and against US intervention in Venezuala marched from the White House to the IMF and World Bank, two weeks before the 2019 Spring Meetings.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, NATO, Venezuala, IMF, World Bank
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May 26, 2016
05/16
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On the 24th of May in Albuquerque, New Mexico, protesters fought a significant battle against police and disrupted yet another racist Donald Trump event. Opponents of the racist hate spewed by would-be Fuhrer Trump sucessfully stormed through a police barricade to reach the Convention Center where the Trump event was held. inside, Trump was repeatedly interrupted by protesters, chants and booing could be heard in the background. Protests went on outside well after Trump's event had ended, at...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Donald Trump, GOP, Trump Protests
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Apr 23, 2019
04/19
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This is NUTS-a white man on hearing Howard University students don't want white dog walkers invading their campus demands Howard University move! This video clip originally published by FOX Newas has found its way into Youtube video remixes. Extracted from a (much) longer Roland Martin Youtube video.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, Howard University
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Aug 9, 2014
08/14
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Short video of the scene outside the White House at 9PM on August 8, 8 hours after the showdown between pro-Gaza/Iraq/Syria activists and Israelis. Some protesters are still at the White House, protest pens are still in place (for tomorrow's "Day of Rage?"-and lots of "Israeli Propaganda" dropped by Park Police horses earlier is still on the street
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Protest4Unity, Iraq, Syria, Gaza, Palestine
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Mar 21, 2017
03/17
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On the 20th of March, two DC residents closed their accounts with Wells Fargo over the bank's investments in the Dakota Access Pipeline and other socially irresponsible investments such as private prisons. A protest outside the bank supported them. A bill directing the DC government to divest their about $2 billion in accounts with Wells Fargo was scheduled to be introduced the following day, March 21 and this protest was in part to suppport this DC Divest campaign.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, DAPL, #NoDAPL, Wells Fargo
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Dec 9, 2014
12/14
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On the 8th of December, The National Park Service's contract deer shooters showed up the earliest they have yet been seen to kill deer in Rock Creek Park. They claim 300 deer in Rock Creek is too many, even though there are nearly 600,000 people in the surrounding city. Animal rights activists are patrolling the woods to document and when possible disrupt this "cull" of the Rock Creek Deer
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Rock Creek Park, Deer cull
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Apr 10, 2018
04/18
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On the 9th of march, activists organized by a Single Payer Action Camp dragged a giant ball and chain from the American Health Insurance Plans office past the Canadian Embassy and the US Capitol to the Department of Health and Human Services. They were demanding that the failing ACA be replaced by a "Medicare for All," single payer system as used in all other industrialized nations. The stop at the Canadian Embassy was to emphasize that Canada's national health care system was based...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, health care, single payer, Medicare for All
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Nov 11, 2015
11/15
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On the 8th of November, reports emerged on Twitter that DC police from the 7D station shined lights into an activist home in Anacostia, and screamed at the women inside. Two cops showed up and shined lights into the house, then started screaming threats when asked why they were doing this. Cops also pulled over someone leaving the BlackJoySunday event that was being held at the house that evening. The cops clamied on video that simply seeing someone step out of the house and back in while on...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, DC Police, Black Lives Matter, police harassment
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May 2, 2015
05/15
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On May 1, 2015, Mayday,the occupation of Baltimore by the National Guard and out of state cops completely failed to deter protesters from taking ov A march so large that nowhere could both ends be seen marched on the jail, on City Hall, and on the Western District police station in West Baltimore near where Freddie Grey was murdered. Later that night protesters staged a sit-in at City Hall in defiance of the Mayor's curfew. Police reponded with beatings and arrests to the sit-in.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Mayday, Baltimore, Freddie Grey
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Mar 25, 2014
03/14
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On the 13th of March, US Park Police demanded during the day that the antinuclear vigil in front of the White House remove their property. When told the signs are protected under the First Amendment, they said the tent had to go. They claimed they would be back at 9PM to remove the tent but did not show up as of midnight March 13-14. They were back twice the following day and forced removal of the tent-and all chairs, etc-under threat of arrest in 15 minutes
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Park Police, Peace Park, White House Vigil
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Jun 27, 2014
06/14
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On Friday, the 27th of June the 5th and final day in a row of the pickets featured an appearance by Interfaith Power and Light, a faith group calling the destruction of the environment the worst of all possible sins
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Interfaith Power and Light, Cove Point, FERC, fracking, LNG
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Nov 8, 2018
11/18
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On the 7th of November, Tucker Carlson of both FOX News and the Daily Caller received an anti-Fascist protest at his home against peddling hate. Both FOX and the Daily Caller are infamous for helping Trump and the extreme right peddle racist hate. This hatemongering is widely blamed for stirring up the recent wave of far-right terrorist attacks. Now, an HLS style home demo has served notice to Tucker Carlson, the Daily Caller, and FOX News that the consequences of peddling hate don't stop at...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, Antifa, Tucker Carlson, FOX News, Daily Caller
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Nov 15, 2016
11/16
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On the 14th of November, the No Lame Duck Uprising capped off their protest against the TPP, Oligarchy, and the rise of Donald Trump with a "pitchforks and torches" march from the US Capitol to Trump Hotel
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, TPP, Trump, Trump Hotel, Trump protests, Not My President, pitchforks and...
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Dec 13, 2015
12/15
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On the 12th of December, the People's Climate Rescue brought a rubber boat and oars to the White House to demand real action on climate chaos and climate justice. Meanwhile in Paris, the negotiating countries announced a deal promising to hold temperature rise to 1 C, but the deal has no enforcement teeth. No trade sanctions, no courts bypassing normal legal procedures, none of the iron teeth associated with things like NAFTA/TPP style trade treaties
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, COP21, Paris climate talks, climate change, global warming, Friends of the Earth
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Jan 21, 2021
01/21
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DC Youth Liberation Front
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DC Youth Liberation Front (DCYLF) video of incident where a group of BIPOC folks from LA were detained without reason on the way back to their cars at Biden's Inauguration.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, police harassment, Inauguration, Inauguration 2021
